Your shoes can track allergens, pesticides and all other kinds of nasty toxins into your home. If you have children, or animals, who spend a lot of time on the floor, this is doubly worrisome.

But, if you're going to take the shoes off, you need a good way to keep them organized and out of the way. Our favorite solution might be this DIY floating shoe rack (pictured) that we nabbed from AT: Nursery. We think we could jury-rig a decent version of this with some leftover pieces of wood we have stored in the basement.

But one shoe rack won't work for everyone, so we spent some time fishing around the archives at all the AT sites.